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I'm researching the life of Henry Elgar.  (See below for background summary.)

The following advertisment appeared in the Melbourne, Australia newspaper The Argus, Thursday 20 Jan 1853:

This is quite a long story but a rather strange one. My father, William Frank Povey (known to his friends as Bill and to my mother as Will) embarked on a career as a merchant seaman at the age of 16, serving with several ships sailing to, notably, Buenos Airies. I believe he met my mother Valerie Nash at a party held in Maida Vale, London, by the Labour MP Konni Zilliacus. At the time my mother was sharing a flat with Zilliacus' stepdaughter Dawn. He and my mother were marries on 11 June 1955 and from the certificate were apparently living together at 49 Gloucester Terrace, London.